to keep us out of it, and, also, warning the people of syria he could be prepared to use these if he is brought down. >>shepard: based on what the united states has said and not said or done, what is the united states goal? >>guest: the united states does not want to be involved militarily. 40,000 dead on the ground that we know and another 40,000 missing and likely resumed dead, we don't want to get involved militarily or set up a in fly zone. we have left saudis to arm the rebels in turkey but the result of that is mostly islamists have been getting the weapons in syria. we want this to end quickly and we would like russia to offer an escape package for bashar al-assad but there is little hope for that. >>shepard: you have spoken of the troops which we are said to have in jordan. tell us of their training and what indications we get from it? >>guest: from open source press, there was a u.s. massive special forces exercise in jordan a few months ago named eager lion, and lion is the name for "assad" and we left a number of special forces troops forward position in jordan doing conti